Four University of Southampton staff members are celebrating recognition in the Queen’s New Year Honours 2018.
Professor David Martin (Geography and Environmental Science) receives an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) for services to Geography and Population Studies; Dr Stephen Wootton (Medicine) an OBE for services to nutrition and physical activity; Jocelyn Walters (Medicine) an MBE for services to cancer research and Stephen Foster, former Director of the University’s John Hansard Gallery (now an Emeritus Professor) an MBE for service to the arts.
Jocelyn Walters joined the University of Southampton in 2000 and built one of the first cancer research networks in the UK. She established a large team to deliver world class clinical trials, on behalf of the University (including the Centre for Cancer Immunology), Southampton General Hospital and the National Institute for Health Research, to cancer patients across Wessex.
Jocelyn Walters
Dr Wootton is acknowledged as one of the principal nutrition educators in the UK in the training of nutritionists, doctors and other health professionals. He was one of the first to apply the principles of nutritional science and exercise physiology to the preparation of elite performers as part of Sports Council funded research and now applies the same principles to develop better ways of improving nutritional wellbeing for those about to undergo cancer treatment or treatment for chronic inflammatory disease.
Dr Stephen Wootton
Professor Martin’s research in geographical information science focuses on new techniques for population mapping and has led to the system of ‘small areas’ used by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) for publication of official statistics, such as data from the ten-yearly census and the government’s Indices of Deprivation. For ten years, he was coordinator of the Economic and Social Research Council’s (ESRC) Census Programme and he is currently a co-director of the UK Data Service and National Centre for Research Methods.
Professor David Martin
Stephen Foster retired from the University at the end of April 2017 after 30 years as Director of the John Hansard Gallery which, with his guidance, became one of the foremost galleries of contemporary art in Europe. Under Stephen’s leadership the Gallery collaborated closely with a wide range of University disciplines, and was designated ‘world-leading’ for its curatorial research. He was also instrumental in the creation of the £27m new arts complex in Southampton’s city centre, where John Hansard Gallery’s current home at Studio 144 opened in 2018. In 2017, Stephen became the Gallery’s founding patron and on his retirement was made an Emeritus Professor.
Stephen Foster
